User:SwitChar

SwitChar
SwitChar
	Victoria, Australia
Occupation	Writer; Graphic designer; Activist
Nationality	Human
Genre	Fiction: Cyberpunk, dystopia, political fiction, social science fiction; Non-fiction:Children's treatises and agitprop
Subject	Anarchism, anti-capitalism, direct action, self-management

SwitChar is taking a long wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia eventually.

This page contains several possibly

make it funny

. Thank you!

SwitChar is a

reading, philosophising, trying to change the world, listening to music (see here), contributing to Wikipedia and conversing via internet forums. This page will refer to him in the first person

below.

Links

Topics of interest or knowledge

Punk rock
Alternative rock
Anarchism
Marxism
Communism
Physics
Biology
Evolution
Taxonomy
Etymology
Lexicology
Debate
Revolution
Religion
Pseudoscience
Art
Graphic design
- See my gallery and my userboxes

Other stuff

My sandbox
Talk to me
List of anarchists, a work in progress.
stuff
Wikimedia Commons page
Opinion disclaimer, as seen above. Please use!
Content disclaimer, similar. Please use!

Tastes of Wikipedians pages:

Like music? see the Soundtrack of Wikipedians
Like films? see the Wikipedian Cinema
Like books? see the Wikipedian Bookshelf
Like comics? see the Wikipedian Comics
Like games? see the Wikipedian Gamebox
Like food? see the Wikipedian Kitchen
Are you quotable? read the Wikipedian Notebook
Like plays? see the Wikipedian Theatre
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Wikipedia history

I first encountered Wikipedia sometime in mid-

copyediting

at first. I first created a userpage on April 13, 2006. I'm now involved in a wide variety of articles, pertaining to my interests and studies.

Contributions

I created the article

List of atheists, Alternative metal and Funk metal

.

Grammar and linguistic preferences

I am a recovering grammar nazi. I am a writer and, at current, a student of editing; subsequently, such activities are natural to me. If copyediting is needed, I will more than likely be able to help.

ə

This user is a Grammar Nazi.

OED

This user uses Oxford spelling.

AU

This user speaks Australian English.

AIM talk

perfectly well, but does not seriously use it. Ever.

“,;:’

This user is a punctuation stickler.

. The

This user does not put two spaces after a full stop.

,

This user fixes

comma-splices

; they are annoying.

A, B, and
A and B

This user prefers to use the serial comma only when its omission can be confusing.

its & it's

This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you.

’s	This user agrees with incorrect usage of apostrophes.[1]

x; y

This user is addicted to semicolons; (s)he uses them frequently.

your
you're

This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help.

they

This user promotes the use of singular they.

snuk

This user says snuck.

to¦go

This user chooses to sometimes use split infinitives.

by

The passive voice may be used by this user.

... in.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which this user will not put.

~~mankind~~

This user supports the use of gender-neutral language.

to
too
two

This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.

who(m)

This user advocates the use of whom wherever proper, but does not insist upon it.

which & that

This user knows how to use which and that correctly.

if & whether

This user knows how to use "if" and "whether" correctly.

less & fewer

This user understands the difference between less & fewer.

their / there / they're

This user knows they're out there, those people who confuse words pronounced /ðeə(r)/, and their edits are infuriating.

Vandalism

This page has been vandalised twice:

This happened after people on Talk:Punk fashion took things a little too seriously. 216.7.127.6 (talk · contribs)
No idea what this was about. 201.7.85.252 (talk · contribs)

Awards

		The Original Barnstar
		I award you, Switch, a barnstar for being a valuable, productive, and helpful contributor to wikipedia. --Ubiq 03:20, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Music

My tastes include primarily

Descendents to Dead Kennedys to Discharge to Doom to Devo. I also enjoy funk, particularly Zapp, Parliament/Funkadelic and the go go band Trouble Funk. To a lesser extent, I also enjoy reggae, dub music and ska, epsecially 2 tone, and heavy metal, primarily fist-wave bands like Black Sabbath, but also Motörhead and slow, heavy doom metal bands like Pentagram and Saint Vitus. I am also a fan, in a boader sense, of alternative rock and alternative metal. I enjoy free jazz, hip hop, industrial music, rock and roll, soul, and almost anything else as long as it's good. A short list of favourite bands includes The Clash, Rage Against the Machine, Crass, Joy Division, The Smiths, Gang of Four, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Interpol

.

Influences

Though I do not subscribe to dogma, I have been politically, personally and philosophically influenced by many streams of thought, including:

Deep Ecology – Existentialism – Freethought – Hacktivism – Individualism – Marxism – Militancy – Pacifism – Rebellion – Sedition

People

People who have influenced me philosphically or politically, or who are just generally awesome, include:

Alan Moore – Bill Hicks – Carl Einstein – Crass – Emiliano Zapata – Emma Goldman – Frantz Fanon – George Carlin – George Orwell – Henry Rollins – Howard Zinn – Immanuel Kant – Jean-Paul Sartre – Jello Biafra – Karl Marx – Leo Tolstoy – Malcolm X – Noam Chomsky – Oscar Wilde – Peter Kropotkin – Philip K. Dick – Terry Pratchett

Politics and beliefs

Me at a glance:

This user is a real anarchist.

This user is bisexual, not confused.

According to The Political Compass this user is:
Economic Left (−9.38) and
Social Libertarian (−9.49)

INTP

This user has an Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Keirsey Temperament Sorter
.

This user is an atheist.

This user supports the "terrorists"
the world over.

This user supports antifa in combating fascism in both word and action.

This user thinks GNU copyleft and libre software are great ways of promoting a gift economy and anarchist economics.

This user is interested in conspiracy theories but thinks lizards, UFOs and antisemitic theories are disinformation.

This user supports
mandatory detention for refugees
.

This male user supports feminism.

This user is against imperialism.

This user believes in a Conflict
.

This user understands biological evolution.

This user believes if voting changed anything, it would be made illegal.

This user wonders how this can be a free country when everything is for sale.

Oh shit!

This user thinks profanity does not exist. (S)he believes that such words are the same as any other words and should be treated as such.

This user supports the legalisation of all recreational drug use under a harm reduction scheme.

This user believes the death penalty should never be enacted by the state.

This user is a Citizen of the World
.

This user is a strong supporter of the LGBT community, and sees nothing wrong with being queer.

This user opposes

gun control for civilians but supports gun control for the military and police forces and thinks gun ownership by anyone is a Bad Thing

.

This user enjoys post-punk.

This user believes

social construct and will oppose racism by any means necessary

.

EAC

This user is not a member of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy, because it doesn't exist, and even if it did, (s)he wouldn't be, of course not.

Good news, everyone! This user is a fan of Futurama

.

Rock 'n' Roll
, brothers.
Retort to the argument that "Anarchy would never work because it would just
patent nonsense
.

The
Qur'an might be "violent", but it's nothing compared to that Bible
in your jacket pocket.

Racism is really stupid. This is not opinion; it is fact.

"Just and Righteous" people do not offer up their daughters to be raped by a violent mob. I mean, this isn't brain surgery
.

Portmanteaus
are cool.

Evil Capitalists decided to fuck with nature, and now hundreds of thousands of people have died needlessly to an incurable disease
.

Israelites were also polytheistic
, by the way.

I have witnessed police brutality, but I have not been a victim of it.

concentration camp that held 40,000 prisoners, and beginning a regime of state terrorism, torture and detention of activists. Pinochet was freed by the fascist-friendly Margaret Thatcher
in 2000, but was forced to face trial in 2005 - sadly, he died before he could be punished for his crimes. Let's bring the rest of the people responsible for the atrocities committed to justice!

The world would be a better place if Oscar Wilde had recorded a rock album.

Intelligent design is about as valid as Young Earth creationism, which is about as valid as astrology, which is about as valid as phrenology, which is not very valid at all.

trendy, insipid, mindless, shallow, pretentious tripe
, and I hate them.

instructions to "Shoot to Kill" given to police; right to criticise the government severely curtailed. Shit, I'm living in a police state
.

You can add racist immigration laws to that, too.

I support anarchism without adjectives.

"Anarcho"-capitalists are just capitalist "libertarians" trying to sound cool.

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